datagrid: on closeeditor UTF8 issue

2011-02-16 Thread JosepM
Hi Trevor, Using this: SetDataOfIndex the dgIndex of me, the dgColumn of me, unidecode(the unicodeText of pFieldEditor, utf8) Don't work. Still losing the accents... Thoughts? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context:

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Britanny, Peter Haworth said : I won't use an iPhone or an iPad because of Apple's attitude. Amen to that Peter, after nearly 30 years of faith in Apple and its products, and the long line of their beautiful machines from the 128 down to the iMac. As long as I can't run

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
folks, I am a heavy user of the kindle app for both the iPhone and iPad. I don't have a kindle but I read a lot of scifi in english, I can't buy the books here and my place is small to host them, so I buy digital and save some forests. Imports are heavily taxed here in Brazil, if I buy a kindle

Re: Can a revlet intereact with a rev server database?

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Kevin, Sorry, english is not my native language so I may be mixing things up here. This works fine up to a point. The issue is that I can't see a way of grabbing the user id from the server or making an entry on the database via the revlet. - Is it possible? yes it is, the revLet can talk

selecting the selected

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
Umm . .. so I have a field [called fld TEKST]full of text and I select some of it with my mouse I then click on a button that contains the following script: on mouseUp copy the selected of fld TEKST end mouseUp nix! now, I've tried the selectedText and the selectedChunk to no avail . .

Re: selecting the selected

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Richmond wrote: Umm . .. so I have a field [called fld TEKST]full of text and I select some of it with my mouse I then click on a button that contains the following script: on mouseUp copy the selected of fld TEKST end mouseUp nix! now, I've tried the

Re: selecting the selected

2011-02-16 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richmond, Umm . .. so I have a field [called fld TEKST]full of text and I select some of it with my mouse I then click on a button that contains the following script: on mouseUp copy the selected of fld TEKST end mouseUp nix! now, I've tried the selectedText and the

Re: selecting the selected

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 05:20 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Richmond wrote: Umm . .. so I have a field [called fld TEKST]full of text and I select some of it with my mouse I then click on a button that contains the following script: on mouseUp copy the selected of fld

PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
I have a series of images used as buttons with an optional overlay image that has both transparent and semi-opaque areas. When I mouse Down/Up over the opaque areas I want the mouse Down / Up signals to pass through the overlay to the images underlying it. But I cannot get my thick head around

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Richmond, Check the location of the mouse. If it is within the same range as your opaque area send the message click onto your opaque image. Cheers, Rick On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Richmond wrote: I have a series of images used as buttons with an optional overlay image that has

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
oh that is clever... On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com wrote: Hi Richmond, Check the location of the mouse.  If it is within the same range as your opaque area send the message click onto your opaque image. Cheers, Rick On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:44

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.02.11 at 17:44 +0200 Richmond apparently wrote: I have a series of images used as buttons with an optional overlay image that has both transparent and semi-opaque areas. When I mouse Down/Up over the opaque areas I want the mouse Down / Up signals to pass through the overlay to the images

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
Let's try and think of Use-Lists and Forums, where, within 15 minutes, one can get offers of many possible solutions to programming problems. Very, very few, I suspect. But this one Really Rocks! ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
If it's Tuesday it must be a new iOS license... ;) Personally, I'm not too concerned about this latest move by Apple. Like Chipp says, Apple will backpedal on this once the implications become clear, just like they did last time:

RE: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
My dream phone is not an android one, I am a fan of WebOS since its start and always wanted a phone running that. Last year at OSCON, I saw a demo of the Ares tool set from some engineers at HP and I have to say, for building web apps, its really beautiful. They have tablets coming, too. Best

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
Well . . . Either APPLE are slow learners and they don't realise how this sort of move followed by a retraction makes them look unstable from a policy point of view. Or . . . APPLE knows very well what it is playing at; attracting our attention and then appearing to give way when that is what

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: My dream phone is not an android one, I am a fan of WebOS since its start and always wanted a phone running that. Last year at OSCON, I saw a demo of the Ares tool set from some engineers at HP and I have to

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. Isn't free enterprise grand? We can vote with our wallets! What will NOT by ANY means change one daggum thing however, is bashing Apple on a list no

multi scroll

2011-02-16 Thread dunbarx
I remember something about this early in my LC career. I want to lock-step scrolling among a dozen or more fields. The scrollBarDrag message in one field does the trick: on scrollbarDrag lock screen repeat with y = 3 to 15 set the scroll of fld y to the scroll of me end repeat

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
never heard of enabled... cool... On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/16/2011 06:12 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: You might get what you want by setting the enabled of the overlay graphic to false. I think I love you!  That is so simple and so

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 07:37 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. Isn't free enterprise grand? We can vote with our wallets! What will NOT by ANY means change one daggum

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: never heard of enabled... cool... The funny thing is that I hadn't either, but I know from using Flash that a similar issue can be solved by setting the mouseEnabled to false, so I searched help for enabled.

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread David C.
Bob said: If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. What you are overlooking is that vendors like Amazon have already invested who knows how much, to build and provide first class applications

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes, not directed at you in particular Richmond. But I should make the point that you paid Apple money for those things didn't you? And in return you got a product, right? Isn't your contract with Apple now ended? (Once the Warranty expires I mean.) Certainly, it doesn't entitle you to any

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: never heard of enabled... cool... The funny thing is that I hadn't either, but I know from using Flash that a similar issue can be solved by setting the mouseEnabled to false, so I searched help for enabled.

Finding the LiveCode executable

2011-02-16 Thread Devin Asay
Hello LiveCoders, I have a standalone from which I want to launch a stack in the LiveCode IDE. Most of the time the 'launch document' command works perfectly for this. But if the user has not associated the .rev or .livecode extension with an application, (or if there is a Windows registry

Re: PASSing out with frustration

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: never heard of enabled... cool... The funny thing is that I hadn't either, but I know from using Flash that a similar issue can be solved by setting the mouseEnabled to

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
You are then saying that Apple has violated some contract or agreement, or at least a commonly understood fair practices common law with the vendors. Well and good. There's grounds for a lawsuit then. But character assassinations of people we do not at all know personally, behind the

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
I just want my devices to be mine again... to be able to tinker with them without making myself a target for a lawsuit... :-/ On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: You are then saying that Apple has violated some contract or agreement, or at least a commonly

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 08:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes, not directed at you in particular Richmond. But I should make the point that you paid Apple money for those things didn't you? And in return you got a product, right? Isn't your contract with Apple now ended? (Once the Warranty expires I mean.)

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 08:29 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I just want my devices to be mine again... to be able to tinker with them without making myself a target for a lawsuit... :-/ That, my dear, is what the whole cut and thrust of Richard Stallman's critique is about:

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread David C.
I am reminded of the words of a great man, who was telling a story about a landowner who had hired some day laborers, some early, some the middle of the day, some late afternoon, and some towards the evening. The deal he struck with each was that he would pay them one shekel for their labors.

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 08:54 PM, David C. wrote: Oh pooh! Bravo! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.02.11 at 11:57 -0600 David C. apparently wrote: Bob said: If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. What you are overlooking is that vendors like Amazon have already invested who

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 08:48 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: On 16.02.11 at 11:57 -0600 David C. apparently wrote: Bob said: If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. What you are overlooking is that

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 16 Feb 2011, at 19:10, Bob Sneidar wrote: I guess what I am on the soap box about is the notion so many people have these days that we are owed some say in what amounts to the private affairs of other people or corporations and even countries. Because you'd never tell anyone to stop

Re: Finding the LiveCode executable

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Bonner
Doesn't get by the problem of a munged registry, but this should work to give you the location. (there are multiple keys that could work for this in the registry, this one should be fine) put queryRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\RevolutionStack\DefaultIcon\) returns C:\Program Files

Re: Finding the LiveCode executable

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Bonner
Can't test on anything but win7 at the moment though so your mileage may vary. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't get by the problem of a munged registry, but this should work to give you the location. (there are multiple keys that could work for

RE: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. Isn't free enterprise grand? We can vote with our wallets! What will NOT by ANY means change one daggum thing however, is bashing Apple on a list

RE: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Whatever Apple decides to do is one thing (and certainly open to debate), but what REALLY frustrates a lot of people is the constant changing of the rules. Constantly changing the rules may be intentional. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/11 11:57 AM, David C. wrote: What you are overlooking is that vendors like Amazon have already invested who knows how much, to build and provide first class applications for Apple products and their customers. True. But as I understand it, it is still possible to purchase content at

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
personally I thin taking 30 percent if the sale is made trough iStore is decent. Not taking money from sales made other places is also decent. What's indecent in my eyes is _demanding_ that any offer made outside of iStore is also mandatory to be made in the iStore as a mirror offer. The last

formattedHeight and scrollbars

2011-02-16 Thread Claus Dreischer
Hi, I'm a bit confused with the formattedHeight of a field and an additional scrollbar: The content of a field has the formattedHeight of e.g. 74 The scrollbarwidth is set to 10, but the hScrollbar is not enabled yet. Now when i enable the hScrollbar, the formattedHeight of that field jumps to

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/11 2:48 PM, David C. wrote: I do know for certainty that PDF's and e-books of other formats can be emailed to a user account to be converted to work with the Kindle, as long as there isn't any DRM content involved. Unless you are correct, that means folks that own Amazon based e-book

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
I never mentioned the word parable! ;-) I understand that changing the rules after devs invest is very frustrating. But every week? Bit of an exaggeration. And no it's not wrong to be bothered by it, you are invested, and because of that there may be, as I said room for litigation. It's just

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread David C.
I don't yet own an i-thing, so I'm not clear on this, but if you already have an app installed, won't it continue to work forever? Well one would certainly hope so and I would imagine they will have to at least to some extent. I'm thinking that the class action suits directed toward both Apple

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Also, a socialist doesn't believe that money that is in your hand is yours to do with as you please. That is contrary to Marxism. Sorry for the politics. It's applicable to the subject. Bob On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Richmond wrote: Upon paying the last ones first, and then the first

Can a revlet intereact with a rev server database?

2011-02-16 Thread Kevin Stallibrass
From: Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com This works fine up to a point. The issue is that I can't see a way of grabbing the user id from the server or making an entry on the database via the revlet. - Is it possible? yes it is, the revLet can talk directly to the database thru

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 02/16/2011 11:20 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Also, a socialist doesn't believe that money that is in your hand is yours to do with as you please. That is contrary to Marxism. Sorry for the politics. It's applicable to the subject. I know what Marxism is, what it is supposed to be, what it was,

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/11 3:17 PM, David C. wrote: Just doesn't seem fair for Apple to put their vendors or their customers through those kinds of hoops, needlessly. I certainly have to agree with that. I wonder whether Steve's illness has affected his judgement. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:54 AM, David C. wrote: Oh pooh! Anyone old enough to be past the grade school age has had to deal with such things and your inference to someone else being cowardly might just be a be cowardly by your own measure. rolling eyes Except that I am communicating

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Just once I believe, and if I'm not mistaken, He thought it worth it because of what He got out of the bargain. Not so poor a chap now! Bob On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Richmond wrote: On 02/16/2011 11:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: That's what the proto-socialists say. The neo-conservatives

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Now there's a thought. Also, I wonder how much sway the stockholders and the board of directors have on these decisions. No one seems to think about those guys, but they cannot be silent in all these major decisions. Bob On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:32 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/16/11 3:17

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread David C.
But let's not continue this any further. You seem to be very upset about all of this. Perhaps I've struck a nerve. My apologies. Heh, no need for apologies, Bob. We have both voiced our points of disagreement, no more, no less. Actually, I'm not too upset in all of it, because I have a very

Re: multi scroll

2011-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/11 11:37 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I remember something about this early in my LC career. I want to lock-step scrolling among a dozen or more fields. The scrollBarDrag message in one field does the trick: on scrollbarDrag lock screen repeat with y = 3 to 15 set the

Re: multi scroll

2011-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/16/11 11:37 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote: I remember something about this early in my LC career. I want to lock-step scrolling among a dozen or more fields. The scrollBarDrag message in one field does the trick: on scrollbarDrag lock screen repeat with y =

Re: OT: simple file listing PHP script

2011-02-16 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Mark, Klaus: http://php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php and copy-paste. WONDERFUL! Thank you very much! :-) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com ___ use-livecode

Plugins folder gotcha

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Haworth
I recently followed the advice in a thread on this list and created a Livecode folder in my Documents folder so I could put a plugins folder in it, then changed the LC Preference to refer to the /Documents/Livecode User Extensions folder. That all worked fine. However, all my button images

Re: multi scroll

2011-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/11 4:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The problem with relying on the group is that groups and fields and any other objects in LC are limited to a formattedWidth and formattedHeight of about 32k pixels. There's a request to enlarge that:

Re: RevServer deployment on OSX Server

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
ohhh thanks! On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Keith Clarke keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, I promised to publish some notes on the above - new to blogging as well as LiveCode and OSX server, so I hope they help a bit: • OSX Server vs Regular OSX considerations:

Re: OT: simple file listing PHP script

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
php help is wonderful, you can always go to http://php.net/insert keyword/function/whatever and you end up in a nice place with explanations and examples, it is really good! I wish docs.runrev.com was friendlier, right now you need to go to stuff such as http://docs.runrev.com/command/put or

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Reread that part. Just for the record, I in now way am comparing Jobs to Hitler! Just thought the Godwin's law thing was sorta funny-- on second read-- not so much. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Furthermore, I don't need to personally know Hitler to know